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"Republicans may have hemmed and hawed but didn't raise a big stink about it. They just figured "it's Massachusetts and we don't stand a chance there," until Scott Brown won the special election in 2010 when Ted Kennedy died."

That crap doesn't surprise me at all. And it is just another example of gutless Republicans.

When Rudy won the election for Mayor of New York City, there were no term limits for Mayor. The end of 1993, just prior to his being sworn in, in January 1994, the RAT-controlled City Council passed a Bill limiting the office of Mayor to two consecutive terms. Sometime prior to the 2001 election for Mayor, Bloomberg, a life-long RAT, changed to Republican, to run on Rudy's coattails. Rudy asked the City Council if he could remain in office, at least to see the city through the aftermath of 9/11. They refused. In 2008, Bloomberg changed his party from GOP to Independent, and asked the City Council if they would let him run for a third term. They said "Of course!!" without submitting the issue to the voters. There were legal challenges, but Federal Courts rejected them all. Bloomberg was elected to a third term. In 2010, a ballot referendum was introduced to return the Mayor's term limit to two and passed overwhelmingly, limiting the next Mayor Bill De Blasio to two consecutive terms.

The sad thing is that Republican ruling councils NEVER do this when their own wins an election.

I've said before that it's not just that it's not in their DNA to do so, it's that mentally they can't conceive of the thought of doing it. And by extension, they never think that the Democrats can be so devious in what they think up and so are never prepared for what the Democrats spring on them.

-PJ